Amina
Amina is a girl's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 271st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 315th. About 19,000 Aminas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Amina
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,270
- Estimated living today
- 19,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 271st
- Rank in 2025
- 315th
- First recorded
- 1943
How old the living Aminas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,270 babies given the name since 1943, about 19,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 14,000 of them are children and 12 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Aminas
- Amina J. Mohammed (born 1961)Nigerian-British diplomat and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Amina Wadud (born 1952)American Islamic scholar
- Amina Bouayach (born 1957)Moroccan activist
- Amina Okueva (1983–2017)Ukrainian surgeon and servicewoman, People's hero of Ukraine
- Queen Amina (1533–1610)Hausa Muslim Warrior Queen of Zazzau
- Amina Lawal (born 1973)Nigerian sentenced to death
- Amina Tyler (born 1994)Tunisian feminist and activist
- Amina Annabi (born 1962)French-Tunisian singer and actress
People named Amina with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Amina is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Amina is most concentrated in New York (1.9×), Maryland (1.8×), Nevada (1.7×), Florida (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Amina peaked:
Amina elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Amina | 15,695 | 114th |
| England and Wales girls | Amina | 6,745 | 187th |
| Italy girls | Amina | 2,653 | — |
| Belgium girls | Amina | 2,614 | 65th |
| Switzerland girls | Amina | 1,708 | 70th |
| Norway girls | Amina | 1,542 | 116th |
| Poland girls | Amina | 360 birth registrations | 187th |
| Scotland girls | Amina | 219 | 256th |
| Ireland girls | Amina | 173 | 379th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Amina | 6 | 391st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Amina: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Amina | 1,432 | 0.115% | 58th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Amina | 248 | 0.057% | 96th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Amina | 26 | 0.040% | 110th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Amina | 2 | 0.054% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Amina is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.16% of children were given it – 171 of them.
Amina: rank by region
In 2025, Amina was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Amina | 121 | 48 |
| Wallonia | Amina | 122 | 21 |
| Brussels | Amina | 37 | 19 |
In 2024, Amina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Amina | 8 | 5 |
In 2013, Amina was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Amina | 10 | 2 |
In 2025, Amina was given 2 times or more in 9 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Amina | 190 | 3 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Amina | 167 | 2 |
| Lubuskie | Amina | 100 | 4 |
| Łódzkie | Amina | 151 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Amina | 232 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Amina | 150 | 11 |
| Śląskie | Amina | 255 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Amina | 165 | 5 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Amina | 175 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Amina appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (37th), Province of Liège (55th), Province of West Flanders (77th), Province of Antwerp (108th), Province of East Flanders (123rd) and Province of Flemish Brabant (128th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Amina by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 217 | 91st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Amina among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Amina | 533 | 665 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Amina lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 8,519 women called Amina were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceuta | Amina | 236 | 5.698 | 24 |
| Melilla | Amina | 158 | 3.649 | 53 |
| Almería | Amina | 360 | 0.954 | 159 |
| Girona | Amina | 370 | 0.894 | 172 |
| Tarragona | Amina | 299 | 0.684 | 226 |
| Lleida | Amina | 146 | 0.655 | 217 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Amina against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.